Even on a small iPhone screen it’s easy to switch between views to tweak the oscillators without having to squint too much or play the keyboard and push the modulation wheel.

Visually at least, Moog’s software team has managed to get the look and feel of the app just right. I will not comment on the quality of the others, but what I can say is that we’ve worked very hard both on the visual interaction elements and also the sonic fidelity of the app compared to the real deal.” It really was the first keyboard synthesizer that was portable, had that sound, made accessible to everyone and we wanted to be sure that we would be able to completely nail it both in terms of sounds and feel. “There’s a reason why we waited so long to bring out this app,” Geert Bevin, iOS Product Manager and Software Engineering Lead at Moog, tells FACT. Moog’s Model D for iOS also looks and sounds very faithful to the original and packs in a lot of the features you’d expect from software, such as a preset browser and AUv3 Audio Unit support for using it with the GarageBand app alongside features not found on the original, including arpeggiator, loop recorder and ping pong delay. The app – which runs on both iPad and iPhone – is the latest in a growing line of iOS apps from Moog, which started with the Filtatron filter app in 2010 and two years ago added an accurate recreation of the Model 15 modular synth. As of today however, musicians looking for the Model D sound that don’t have $3,499 to spend on an official reissue have been offered what could be the most accurate emulation of the synth yet – Moog’s new $4.99 Model D app for iOS. Although Moog released an official reissue in 2016, most people’s experience of the instrument will be via one of the many unofficial clones and software emulations on the market such as Arturia’s Mini V, NI’s Monark or the controversial Behringer D. Moog’s classic synthesizer is now an official iPhone and iPad app with new features like polyphony, preset browser and looper.Īlmost 50 years have passed since Moog released the first Minimoog Model D, but the iconic analog synth is still as coveted now as it was when it launched.

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